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The Whiskey Tide (English Edition) Formato Kindle

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In the 1920s, three sheltered sisters from a proper New England family turn rum-runners to provide for their family. Left penniless by their father’s death and a relative’s treachery, they use the family’s pleasure schooner to smuggle whiskey from Canada.

Kate, the bookworm, hatches the plan, sacrificing her last year at Wellesley to make every grueling and dangerous trip. Rosalie risks her engagement to a clergyman to help on the home front – and tends Kate’s gunshot wound from rum-pirates. Aggie, a dazzling flapper hungry for adventure, uses the undertaking to catch the eye of a man she doesn’t realize is a vicious killer.

Kate’s courage in the face of storms, crooks on both sides of the law, and the treacherous tides of the Bay of Fundy changes her view of the world. It also changes the lives of those around her. Joe, the teasing Portuguese-Irish fisherman she hires to captain Pa’s Folly earns money enough to provide previously unimagined help to his poor but close-knit family — but must bear the secret burden of falling in love with Kate. A wealthy old woman dying of loneliness in her cliff-top mansion finds reasons to live. Even Kate’s cousin, shattered in body and spirit by his service in The Great War, is caught in the ripples.

Kate and Aggie’s every success makes their enemies more determined to ruin them. Their gentle cousin becomes an unwitting pawn in a deadly game. The meeting of minds between Kate and Joe, and the mutual attraction they try to deny, forces each to confront the social chasm between them, and the cost of a romance they dare not begin.

THE WHISKEY TIDE is a sweeping historical saga of family ties that bind and chafe and sometimes fray, of adventure and courage, and of new horizons glimpsed in the dark of the moon.
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N Goff
5,0 su 5 stelle Good job, Ruth Myers
Recensito in Canada il 29 marzo 2016
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Rum running, family interactions, class divisions, social mores, two very sympathetic and believable main characters and a cast of interesting supporting people - I had a really hard time putting this one down. Good job, Ruth Myers!
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Judie amsel
5,0 su 5 stelle A captivating voyage
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 22 marzo 2013
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The year is 1919. The place, Salem, Massachusetts. Kate Hinshaw is entering her senior year at Wellesley, College and was invited to do research in Scotland following her graduation. Her older sister, Rosalie, is engaged to a Harvard Divinity School senior. Her younger sister, Aggie, is a partying flapper who resents Kate because she felt Kate was better than she was. And her youngest brother, Woody, confined to a wheelchair spends all his time at home, overprotected by their mother, Genevieve. Oliver, her father, a lawyer, is a socialist, defending the underprivileged and union members. “Justice shouldn’t depend on your pocketbook” was his motto. While the family had been financially secure, Woody’s medical bills and a $15,000 loan to her mother’s brother, Phinneas, still unpaid, had put them into a precarious situation.
Joe Santayna’s family had been fishermen for several generations and he was a fisherman as well, even though he had attended Boston College for one year. He lived with his extended family (grandmother, father, aunts, uncles cousins – 7 children, five adults) in the same five-room home his paternal grandparents had when he first came there at age 7. He was also close to his mother’s two aunts.
Joe was on his way to hire Oliver to represent his brother Michael when he saw Oliver shot to death. And everything changed.
The bank was threatening to foreclose on their house because there was a $15,000 loan on it and they lacked to resources to repay it. Genevieve relied on Uncle Finny for financial advice. He refused to admit he had borrowed any money and urged her to sell the house.
Kate is determined to save their home but needs a lot of money on a regular basis starting immediately. Prohibition has been the law of the land for two years, but drinking continues through illegal speakeasies and smuggling is a major source of income for those willing and able to bring in alcohol from Canada. Oliver’s favorite item was a boat, Pa’s Folly, so Kate hires Joe and a small crew begins a new career.
A lot of the plot describes the problems they encounter on their trips to and from Canada, particularly those that are weather related. Another part is figuring out why Uncle Finny is so anxious for Genevieve to sell their house and boat. Next is the developing relationship between Kate and Oliver.
There are some important and some amusing subplots, as well. Aggie is a victim of domestic violence. An elderly, secluded neighbor provides important information as well as some interesting encounters.
Myers’ words are sometimes extra clever. M. Ruth Myers describes the beginning of a trip to Salem Willow, an amusement park, to see the Flying Horses Carousel: “The nervousness that had filled her as they came through the gates dropped behind her with each step like peanut shells discarded by her fellow revelers.” She describes Joe’s perspective of being drunk by saying (in more words than this synopsis), he had no idea how much he had drunk but everything and everybody seemed to look better. In response to the way people treat her family after their income drops and one of them is arrested after being set up with illicit merchandise, she offers some outlandish comments and observes, “Fibbing ends silly chatter much faster than telling the truth.”
Kate experiences sexism, beginning with some people’s reaction to wearing trousers and to their thoughts on her working on the boat. As her character develops as a result of her observations of other people, she raises concern about issues that are still with us. Speaking of injustice, she says “People willing to work who can’t find jobs. Working people who can scarcely afford to feed their families. Unsafe working conditions. People with everything taking advantage of those who have nothing and doing favors for their own kind rather than what is right.”
I figured out early in the book what the end would be: Uncle Finny, Kate and Joe. But the story kept me interested (there could have been a little bit less about the sea voyages), the characters had variety and were true to themselves, I enjoyed the humor and adventure, and was satisfied with the ending.
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Catriona Bain.
5,0 su 5 stelle brill
Recensito nel Regno Unito il 6 giugno 2013
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a must read because i really couldn't put it down kept reading well into the night and was sad when the book ended
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liza wasser
5,0 su 5 stelle Good Adventure
Recensito in Germania il 31 marzo 2013
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The Whiskey Tide is set in the period after WWI and during Prohibition. Kate is in financial straits and takes to running rum from Canada. Wonderful characters, lots of excitement, well written. Click the buy button. You'll thank me.
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Cathy Morgan
4,0 su 5 stelle good, but...
Recensito in Australia il 14 maggio 2016
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I'm very much in two minds about rating this book. The book is very well written and I enjoyed it overall. In fact, I would have given it five stars but for the two things that made me decide I don't want to read it again: bad language (including blasphemy) and casual sex (not described, or I wouldn't have bothered finishing it) - and these nearly made me give it two stars! If you don't mind such things, it's a great historical romance. If you object to such things, you'll probably want to leave this one alone.
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